Need another word that means the same as “annihilate”? Find 27 synonyms and 30 related words for “annihilate” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Annihilate” are: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out, destroy, obliterate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map, kill, slaughter, exterminate, liquidate, finish off, erase, root out, extirpate, trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, bring someone to their knees
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “annihilate” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| beat | Indicate by beating as with the fingers or drumsticks. Beat the table with his shoe. |
| beat hollow | Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly. |
| best | Outwit or get the better of (someone. She refused to allow herself to be bested. |
| bring someone to their knees | Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere. |
| carry off | Keep up with financial support. |
| decimate | Kill in large numbers. Public transport has been decimated. |
| defeat | Thwart the passage of. She was defeated by the last steep hill. |
| destroy | Destroy completely damage irreparably. The room had been destroyed by fire. |
| eliminate | Eliminate from the body. This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration. |
| eradicate | Destroy completely; put an end to. This disease has been eradicated from the world. |
| erase | Remove from memory or existence. Please erase the formula on the blackboard it is wrong. |
| exterminate | Destroy completely. Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews Gypsies Communists and homosexuals of Europe. |
| extinguish | Extinguish by crushing. Too big to be extinguished at once the forest fires at best could be contained. |
| extirpate | Pull up by or as if by the roots. Timber wolves were extirpated from New England more than a century ago. |
| finish off | Finally be or do something. |
| liquidate | Wind up the affairs of (a business) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets. Liquidate a company. |
| obliterate | Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing. The special stamp should be placed on the left hand side and not be used to obliterate the postage stamp. |
| overwhelm | Defeat completely. I was overwhelmed with guilt. |
| root out | Come into existence, originate. |
| rout | Make a groove in. Rout out the fighters from their caves. |
| slaughter | Kill (people or animals) in a cruel or violent way, typically in large numbers. Innocent civilians are being slaughtered. |
| trounce | Defeat heavily in a contest. Insider dealing has been roundly trounced. |
| wipe off the face of the earth | Rub with a circular motion. |
| wipe off the map | Rub with a circular motion. |
| wipe out | Rub with a circular motion. |
| worst | Defeat thoroughly. This was not the time for a deep discussion she was tired and she would be worsted. |
| abolish | Do away with. The tax was abolished in 1977. |
| abrogate | Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement. A proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike. |
| abrogation | The act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation. |
| annul | Declare invalid. The contract was annulled. |
| cancel | A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat. The electric fields may cancel each other out. |
| cull | An inferior or surplus livestock animal selected for culling. Cull the sick members of the herd. |
| decimate | Drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something. Public transport has been decimated. |
| deconstruct | Analyse a text or linguistic or conceptual system by deconstruction. She likes to deconstruct the texts to uncover what they are not saying. |
| delete | A command or key on a computer which erases text. You can use delete to remove a number of lines from your program. |
| demolish | Comprehensively refute (an argument or its proponent. Brown was busy demolishing a sausage roll. |
| destroy | Destroy completely damage irreparably. The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid. |
| eliminate | Eliminate from the body. The police have eliminated Lawrence from their inquiries. |
| eradicate | Destroy completely, as if down to the roots. This disease has been eradicated from the world. |
| erasable | Capable of being effaced. A signal too loud to be erasable in a single pass through the erase head. |
| exterminate | Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many. Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews Gypsies Communists and homosexuals of Europe. |
| extirpate | Eradicate or destroy completely. Timber wolves were extirpated from New England more than a century ago. |
| extirpation | The act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence. |
| iconoclasm | The orientation of an iconoclast. |
| null | Combine a signal with another in order to create a null cancel out. The tumour can be more readily identified by nulling the high signal from bone marrow. |
| nullify | Declare invalid. Judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions. |
| off | Located on the side of a vehicle that is normally furthest from the kerb offside. The man ran off. |
| override | Extend over; overlap. You can override the cut out by releasing the switch. |
| raze | Completely destroy (a building, town, or other settlement. Villages were razed to the ground. |
| remove | Remove from a position or an office. Remove a wrapper. |
| repeal | Cancel officially. The House voted in favour of repeal. |
| rescind | Revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement. The government eventually rescinded the directive. |
| rescission | The act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made. The plaintiff agreed to the rescission of the agreement. |
| ruthlessly | Without pity or compassion for others. They fell prey to money lenders who ruthlessly exploited them. |
| stump | Use a stump on a drawing line etc. Education chiefs were stumped by some of the exam questions. |
| uproot | Pull up by or as if by the roots. The elephant s trunk is powerful enough to uproot trees. |
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